Doomsday: Gain experience by hunting

“It's you, kid. What's up?” After waiting for a while, Li Ge walked out of the stone house in the guard camp.

Tang Wen took out the burlap sack: “I got lucky and shot two pheasants. I brought them for you to try, Li Ge.”

“Pheasants.” Li Ge looked at them and smiled: “What's up?”

“Well, I want to change houses. I don't know if there are any empty houses in the camp. I'd like you to help me keep an eye out.”

“Simple. I'll take the things. Come in.” Li Ge turned and walked into the stone house behind him, leading Tang Wen through it to one of the rooms—the housing selection office.

After greeting them, Li Ge asked: “Xiao Liang, are there any residences further in? Arrange one for this little brother.”

The young man surnamed Liang stood up and pointed to the map on the wall, saying: “Li Ge is here, of course, we do. The small houses marked in white are all uninhabited. Choose whichever you like.”

Li Ge smiled and tapped him with his hand.

Then turned to signal Tang Wen to come forward and take a look.

The map on the wall was a large piece of parchment. Tang Wen first looked at the camp entrance he was familiar with, and then all the way to the rice shop he often went to.

This rice shop was close to the city. If he could live near here, it would definitely be safe.

Perhaps noticing Tang Wen's gaze, Xiao Liang said: “The closer you get to the city, the more expensive the moving fee. Moving to the city gate allows you to open a shop and do business, but you have to hand in a thousand pounds of grain.”

After Tang Wen heard this, he leaned back slightly and said with a smile: “I'm just looking.”

Moving from inside the camp to the outer perimeter doesn't require you to pay a single pound of grain, as long as you're willing.

Tang Wen and Tang Tang didn't originally live at the camp entrance. Before Tang Wen transmigrated, a family paid hundreds of pounds of grain to exchange houses with them.

There was no way around it; the two of them were weak and could only barely fill their stomachs working in the fields.

They simply couldn't save enough to pay the rent, so they had to sell their residence.

The map on the wall only showed the layout of the outer perimeter of the camp. The city area only had two words written on it—Queen.

After a quick look, Tang Wen pointed to an area and asked: “I don't know how much grain it costs to move to this area?”

He was referring to the area near the blacksmith shop.

That area was hundreds of meters in a straight line from the camp wall. Safety should be guaranteed, and he could also take care of each other with the blacksmith Li Da Niu.

Xiao Liang looked at Li Ge. Seeing that he didn't speak, he said: “Moving costs 300 pounds of grain. The residences there all have courtyards and are large. The rent is paid annually, 240 pounds of grain a year.”

So expensive!

300 pounds of grain is enough for one person to eat for a year.

The rent has also doubled.

But Tang Wen had no choice. He thought for a moment and agreed: “Okay.”

“Okay, here are three empty houses. Choose one.”

“Uh, do you have any suggestions?”

The three empty houses looked no different on the map, all identical white squares.

Xiao Liang looked down at the information and said: “Then choose the one in the middle. There is a well here, and the previous tenant also dug a sweet potato cellar. There are firewood rooms and latrines. Just clean it up and you can live there.”

“Thank you for your recommendation, then it's this one.”

The clerk said in surprise: “As expected of someone brought by Li Ge, you are decisive.”

Li Ge also glanced sideways. Hundreds of pounds of grain were no small amount for the average person and family in the camp.

Tang Wen smiled. It wasn't about being decisive. If he had come to choose a house by himself today, he would have taken his sister to see the place in person before making a decision.

But now that Li Ge brought him here, out of respect for Li Ge, this person wouldn't recommend too bad of a place.

“Do you have enough rice at home? This needs to be paid in one go.”

“Thank you for your concern, Li Ge. It should be about enough.”

“That's good,” Li Ge turned his head and asked: “How much rice can we exchange for a pound of meat?”

The clerk smiled and said: “One pound of meat can be worth up to 15 pounds of rice.”

“Okay. Then send a cart.”

The clerk colored the house Tang Wen had chosen black, handed Tang Wen a piece of paper with a simple note that he was renting “5th Street, No. 6,” and stamped it with the red seal of the “Guard Camp - Housing Selection Office”: “Keep this safe. We're not busy right now, so I'll take you there. I'll go get a cart.”

He went out, and Tang Wen quickly thanked Li Ge again.

The latter waved his hand and looked at the two pheasants with interest, asking: “How did you catch them?”

Tang Wen was stunned and told the truth: “I have a skill with throwing stones.”

“Oh. Throwing stones? Are you accurate?”

“Uh, Li Ge asked me, I dare not lie. Within 30 steps, I have a 90% chance of hitting wherever I aim!”

This was Tang Wen's modest statement. In fact, within 50 steps, he was almost always accurate.

Li Ge narrowed his eyes, as if remembering something: “Recently, several rice shops have received red-beaked finches. They said a young man sent them.”

“That, I sold them. I didn't dare to sell too much each time, so I went to several rice shops.”

“Not bad, not bad.” The matter matched up, and Li Ge looked at him with a hint of appreciation: “Have you seen the guards? Do you know why they are all strong and powerful?”

Tang Wen shook his head, looking at Li Ge expectantly, waiting for him to explain.

Li Ge continued: “By passing the selection, becoming a guard, you can practice martial arts, practice the breathing method passed down by the Queen, train during the day, and have meat with every meal. It won't be long before you become strong.”

As he spoke, he looked at Tang Wen, who cooperatively showed a look of longing on his face and blurted out: “Li Ge, I also want to be a guard!”

The treatment was simply a chaotic world's civil servant!

What? Guards are dangerous?

Is hunting dangerous?

Is it more dangerous for you to go hunting alone, or for the guards to go out in groups, fully armored, holding long knives and riding horses?

“Guards have to risk their lives. It's not very peaceful outside the camp.”

“Li Ge, I am willing to risk my life.” In Tang Wen's view, living in this damn doomsday was already risking your life every day!

Li Ge smiled: “You are still young and not tall enough. You won't be able to make it for the selection next spring. Go back and work hard to build up your strength. If you can't do it next year, there's still the year after.”

“Okay, good.”

Tang Wen's face showed unwillingness, but he still nodded repeatedly, like a dissatisfied teenager.

He was indeed a little sorry in his heart.

Li Ge smiled: “You can come to me if you need anything in the future.”

The sound of rolling wheels rang out.

Outside the window, Xiao Liang stopped at the door in a donkey cart. Li Ge led Tang Wen out the door.

“Xiao Liang, I won't go with Xiao Tang to move. Please take care of it.”

“Li Ge, you're too kind. It's what I should do.”

Li Ge nodded and returned to the house. Xiao Liang pulled Tang Wen into the donkey cart.

Sitting in the donkey cart, Tang Wen was filled with emotion. He had sat in this cart before. When he was a child in his hometown on Earth, it was called a “ground row cart” in the local dialect.

The cart could be pulled by people or animals. The power was very flexible. It only consumed a bundle of grass or two meals for a hundred miles.

“Little Brother Tang, what is your relationship with Li Ge?” Xiao Liang asked with a smile.

“Hey! There's no relationship. It's just that Li Ge is a good person and takes care of me.”

“A good person? Yes, yes, Li Ge is known for being a good person.” Xiao Liang's smile did not diminish. It was clear that he didn't believe a word of it.

Tang Wen led the way for the old man driving the cart. A few minutes later, they arrived at the camp entrance and in front of the mud hut.

“You live here?” Xiao Liang slowly restrained his smile.

“Yes. Wait a moment, I'll tell my family.”

He walked to the door, and the door opened from the inside. Tang Tang saw them arrive through the crack in the door.

“How much millet?” She went straight to the point.

“What?” Tang Wen was stunned, and then he understood. He hesitated and said, “Sister, safety is the most important thing. It's just spending all the millet, sigh, sigh, sigh! Sister, what's wrong with you?”

Hearing “all the millet,” Tang Tang's eyes widened, and she leaned back and fell.

Tang Wen was shocked and quickly supported her.

He saw her eyes lose focus, her body stiff, and she kept repeating: “All the millet, all of it, all…”